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Individuals who might have links here, you know, writing all of these people off. just yesterday, the ahead of the malaysia police here told us, theyre not going to release anything on that investigation until some later date when they can could actually draw some conclusions. they say it would prejudice the investigation. but now we have a new military investigation that was announced. the malaysian royal air force is going to investigate. theyre really investigating how it was that it took so ...

>> mostly we focus down the back. what the equipment gives down the back is beyond visual range, bvr. so it will look beyond what we call the mark an eyeball will be able to see. that doesnt say the pilots at the front go heads in. people will be heads out at the same time the crew is looking at the various radar screens to see if there is anything out there. its a balance. to your point, richard, probably 90 or 80% inside with all of the radar operators and 20% looking out. >> and let me bring ...

>> reporter: thats what the information were getting that yes, there had not been a turn as yet. a lot of this has to do with the acars and what information they got and how its being interpreted. but that seems to be the way its going now. >> so -- because the last acars did not -- >> 1:07. last acars is at 1:07. the good night is at 1:19. im sort of hedging that if the nbc report is correct and that was a programmed change, how else is the ground going to know? how else would anybody know that...

>> reporter: thats what the information were getting that yes, there had not been a turn as yet. a lot of this has to do with the acars and what information they got and how its being interpreted. but that seems to be the way its going now. >> so because the last acars did not -- >> 107. last acars is at 107. the good night is at 119. im sort of hedging that if the nbc report is correct and that was a programmed change, how else is the ground going to know? how else would anybody know that it wa...

Im sort of hedging that if the nbc report is correct and that was a programmed change, how else is the ground going to know? how else would anybody know that it was done 12 minutes earlier other than if the plane had reported hey, somebody has changed the flight management system. somebody has input something. because we know from the radar operators that the actual turn didnt come until after 1:19. >> right. again, a lot of questions. martin savidge, richard quest, mitchell, thanks. up next, ...

Off. this happens at the same time the plane is supposed to check in with air traffic control in vietnam. 1:30 a.m., authorities say all civilian radars lose contact with the plane all together. then it appears to go through erratic altitude changes, perhaps as high as 45,000 feet -- above the approvaled altitude. 2:15 a.m., malaysian military radar last detect it is plane off malaysias west coast, hundreds of miles off course. but it went unnoticed by radar operators until the following day. 6:...

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Morning. headed for beijing. probably seen this flight path over and over again. an hour into the flight it just dropped awful the radar. no word from the pilot. no signs of distress, nothing. now the malaysian government announces it has expanded the search west from the planes intended flight path. for the plane to have crashed here, it would mean that the jet somehow turned back and crossed the entire malaysian peninsula without being detected by any radar operators. now investigators are que...